Muncie officer hurt as he checks on kids

Muncie police officer Ryan Trissel was injured Thursday night while checking on the welfare of two children at 4229 S. Pinewood Drive in Southern Pines, a public housing complex near Crestview Golf Course.

The officer had been dispatched to the apartment building in response to a complaint about the safety of two kids.

Trissel and other officers said they knocked on the front and rear doors for 10 minutes while also shouting out that they were the police, making enough noise that it drew neighbors out of their apartments.

Through a window, Trissel could see a boy in the apartment but no adults.

"Police, answer the door or we are going to force entry," Trissel shouted. He then broke out a small window with his baton and shouted, "Police, we are making entry to the house."

As he reached through the window to unlock the door, someone grabbed his arm and pulled it down onto broken glass, cutting his arm.

Tishaya Joyce, 25, was arrested on preliminary charges of battery to police, disorderly conduct and resisting law enforcement.

She told officers she had been upstairs in her restroom talking on the cell phone and didn't hear anything until glass started breaking.

The boy reportedly told police his mother heard the police knocking and told him to hide.